Short bio:
I am a PhD candidate under the FOURIER research project. The focus of my work is the environmental and operational loads that cause influence on the measured data. Understanding this influence, it is possible to achieve a simpler detection of damage to structures, e.g. bridges or offshore wind turbines.
I finished my bachelor's degree in 2019 at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. I studied Energy Science at the faculty of physics where I specialized in statistical traffic physics – with a focus on highway traffic congestion as a discipline of the theoretical physics department. Within my thesis I analyzed the impact of lane changes within traffic congestion on the traffic congestion clearance time.
Afterwards I continued my specialization statistical traffic physics and finished my master’s degree in 2021. Within my thesis I analyzed boundary conditions of a given model for traffic congestion to understand where the limits of application of this model are.
In the time between my master study and the PhD trajectory at the TU Delft, I worked in an engineering company for mitigation of noise and vibration immissions of railway tracks and constructions sites.
This is why I started the external PhD program in the FOURIER project with a company called VCE (Vienna Consulting Engineering ZT GmbH). It combines my interest in theoretical and academical thinking with a working field close to my last working experiences.
Research interest:
Structural Health Monitoring
Normalization of environmental influences in long-term structural health monitoring of bridges